Useful Little Things

I have a meeting with the Office of Technology Transfer this afternoon. That will be the last milestone in deciding the intellectual property issues. Yes!

The Auburn Univerity Institutional Review Board has asked for a protocol form on the survey. They’ve also indicated we’ve be reviewed under the “Exempt” category, since all our information will remain anonymous. This is good news, since this type of review is typically much faster than the other categories.

With things as moving along in this manner, I’ve decided to make the survey landing page public. Maybe Google will pick it up quickly and we’ll start seeing it under the query: http://www.google.com/search?q=microisv+survey. That would be nice! As it is, the search result mostly link back to this blog and a few other surveys done by microISVers.

If you visit the survey landing page, you’ll see a yellow box in the middle of the page. It currently says the survey has not started yet. Once the survey period opens on July 10th, it will contain a link to get you going. You may also notice that I’ve added to the prizes. I’m now giving away three items: an iPod touch, an iPod shuffle, and a flash drive.

(7/25/2010) Update: The last of the paperwork is in to the IRB. Hopefully they’ll approve it quickly and the survey will go out on time.